Non verbal Language.

In everyday life you can find that almost 75% of the information we obtain in

our interactions comes from non verbal language.

There are many Sciences that study the meaning of those movements:


1. PROXEMICS

Study the way people construct and manage “microspace” the distance

between themselves and others in ordinary daily life. We get closed to people or

get away from them. It gives us the clues to interpret our feeling towards the

others

Through proxemics we know the existence of the CONFORT ZONE

• Intimate

• Good friends

• Acquaintances

• General public

2. KINETICS

Study the nonverbal coding systems of body activity as related to human communication.





3. SEMIOTICS

It’s the science that seeks to understand how Natural or constructed signs and

symbols function as a communication medium

Through semiotics we could differentiate SIGNS

• Units of nonverbal communication

• Gestures

• Movements

• Face expression

• Any movement that convey information.

from CUE/s

• Nonverbal signs used to prompt an event, behaviour or experience

or SIGNAL

• Used to inform as to what will happen, a hint or warning. THE MOST COMMON NONVERBAL SIGNS ARE:

Emblems

Gestures with precise meaning known by a culture

Illustrators

Gestrures that enhance verbal messages.

Adaptors

Help a person adapt release tension, also called “manipulators”. Hands are

used vey often ( scratch, touch, smood..)

Regulators

Used to regulate, manage or control a conversation .

Turn taking, control the conversation

Affect displayers

Facial expressions showing emotions

Micro-expressions

But we also use sounds associated to words to convey meaning. Those sounds

work on their own, even if we do not understand the words/ sentences those

associated sounds will help us to create the context, imagine what the speaker

want to say and predict a future response. This is known as PARALANGUAGE.

The most common ones are:

Qualifiers

volume, inflection, pitch, pacing, tone, melodiousness.

Characterizers

sounds, sights, mumbling, groans, whines, yawning, laughing , cryings ( show

character, emotions, and sensations)

Segregates

Fillers in speech, Pauses, silence or sounds: Oh! Ah-ah!, like-a, sh, Uhuh!..